Steam-motor railway-car.



No. 801,448. PATENTED OCT. 10, 1905.

G. FELLNER.

STEAM MOTOR RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3. 1904.

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CHARLES FELLNER, OF BUDAPEST, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ASSIGNOR TO GANZ & (10.,EISENGIESSEREI UND MASCHINENFABRIKS AKTIEN- GESELLSGHAFT IN BUDAPEST,HUNGARY.

STEAM-MOTOR RAILWAY-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1905.

Application filed November 3, 1904. Serial No. 231,320.

To (all whom it HMI/Z/ concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES FnLLNnR,a subject of the Emperor ofAustria-Hungary, residing at Budapest, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have made new and useful Improvements in Steam-MotorRailway-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to steam-motor railway -cars; and it consists ofcertain novel parts and combinations of parts particularly pointed outin the claims concluding this specification.

Heretofore in the construction of self-propelled steam-railway cars theboiler and engine have been built into the car-body, so as to form withit parts of a single unit, necessitating under ordinary circumstancesthat the entire unit be laid up during the time that repairs were beingmade to any part of it, and due to the necessary high speed ofrevolution of the small engine derangements are much more liable tooccur than in the case of trains propelled by separate locomotives,because in this case it is not necessary to economize space or weight,and the large engine can run much slower. The result of this has been tomake the fixed charges of the road large and to decrease the earningpower of the unit. By my present invention this difiiculty is entirelyeliminated. In my structure both the boiler and the engine can bereadily removed, and, in fact, constitute, practically speaking,independent and exchangeable units complete in themselves, so that mymotor-car is composed of three units-to wit, the car-body, thesteam-generating part or boiler, and the driving mechanism or engineconnected with the driving-axle. This allows these elements to bequickly separated, and if repairs are necessary to the boiler or engineit aifords ready means for removing the unit in which the defect existsand substituting another in good order, the other units lying idle onlywhile the exchange is being effected.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my invention applied in formswhich are at present preferred by me; but it will be understood thatvarious modifications and changes may be made without departing from thespirit of my invention and without exceeding the scope of my claims.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a car involving my invention.Fig. 2 is a top view of the steam-generating element of said car. Fig. 3is a cross-section of the lower portion of said steam-generatingelement, showing the steam-boiler tubes, the ash-pit, and the floor ofthe car to which these parts are attached. Fig. 4 is a detail of theupper part and smoke-stack of said boiler.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged view, partly in section, of the steam-engine ordriving mechanism of said car, showing its connection with therunning-gear. Fig. 6 is a top view of the same, the floor of the carbeing removed.

Similar referencenumerals indicate the same or corresponding parts inall the figures.

The following is a description of the structures shown in the drawings:

10 is a railroad-car. and 11 the motormans cab, at the frontend thereof.Located in this cab and resting on the floor of the car is asteam-boiler 12, and beneath the floor of the car is the boiler-furnace13. In Fig. 3 the lower part of the boiler 12 and the furnace 13 areshown in greater detail.

14 represents the water-tubes, and 15 the water-spaces of the boiler.

17 represents the grate-bars, and 18 the ashpit of the boiler-furnace.This furnace is provided with an angle-plate 19, which rests on thefloor of the car, and the bottom of the boiler is provided with a flange20, which is fastened to said angle-plate by bolts 21. The smoke-stack22, as shown in detail in Fig. L, is provided with a sliding section 23,this section being shown in this figure in its elevated position,permitting the boiler to be readily removed, while in Fig. 1 it is shownin its normal or working position.

2 1 represents coal -bunkers, (see Fig. 2,) and 25 25 are the doors ofthe cab.

Located underneath the car is the steamengine 26. (Shown more in detailin Figs. 5 and 6.) The engine comprises high-pressure and low-pressurecylinders 27 and 28 and is supported by suitable means underneath thefloor of the car, being connected to the driving-wheels by gearing whichis shown exposed in Fig. 5. In the drawings I have shown a car devoid oftrucks and provided with a well-known form of steering-axle havinglateral play in its bearings, to enable it to take curves of relativelyshort axes.

Referring to Fig. 5, 32 is a casing attached to the engine andcompletely inclosing the train of gearing 41 42 between the engine andthe driving-axle 33. This casing embraces and rests on said driving-axle33, and the engine at one end is thus supported. 29 is a suspension-barattached to the sill 30 of the car by universal joints 31 31 and nut 37.The engine is connected with the boiler byasuitableflexiblesteam-pipe.(Notshown) To remove the boiler from the car, it is only necessary tounscrew the bolts 21 and slide the section 23 of the smoke-stack upuntil it is clear of the boiler, as shown in Fig. 4. The boiler may bethen run out on rollers provided for the purpose, one of thecoal-bunkers being previously removed to facilitate the operation.Should it be necessary to remove the ash-pit and fire-box, that can alsobe done readily, as will be understood from the drawings.

When it is desired to remove the motor from the car, this can be quicklydone by jacking up the car and removing the nut 37, when the wheels andthe engine attached thereto may be run out of the way and thesubstitution of another engine with its wheels quickly effected. lVhentrucks instead of the steering axles are used, the engine may be eitherrigidly or flexibly suspended from the truck and the complete truck withits engine attached exchanged whenever necessary.

I do not herein claim the features of construction above described,involving the flexible suspension of the motor driving alongitudinally-movable steering-axle; but

What I do claim is 1. In a steam-motor railway-car the combination withthe body and running-gear of a steam-boiler carried by and readilyremovable from said body, and a steam-engine connected to the drivingrunning-gear at one end of the car and disconnected from therunning-gear at the other end thereof, both engine and drivingrunning-gear in their connected condition being removable from thecar-body.

2. In a steam-motor railway-car the combination with the body andrunning-gear, of a steam-boiler carried by and readily removable fromsaid body, a steam-engine connected to the driving running-gear at oneend of the car and disconnected from the running-gear at the other endthereof, and a casing surrounding the driving running-gear andconnections formed of an extension of the enginecasing, said engine andrunning-gear in their connected condition both being removable from thecar-body.

3. The combination with a car, of a steamboiler mounted thereon, afurnace arranged below the car, and removable means coupling the boilerand the furnace, whereby one may be moved from the car independent ofthe other by the removal of the coupling means.

4. The combination with a car, of a boiler mounted thereon, a furnacearranged below the car in line with the boiler, means for coupling theboiler directly to the furnace, at the base of the boiler, and atelescoping stack holding the boiler at the top of the car.

5. In a steam-motor railway-car, the combination of a boiler removahlymounted on the car, a furnacedetachably secured to the boiler, adriving-axle of a steam-engine, a shaft driven thereby, a train ofgearing driven from said shaft, the final gear being concentric with andtransmitting power to the driving-axle and an inclosing casing for thegear supporting one end of the engine in driving relation to thedriving-axle.

6. In a steam-motor railway-car the combination of a boiler removablymounted on said car and a driving-axle with a steamengine, acrank-driven shaft, a train of gearing driven from said shaft, anextension of the engine-frame on which said gearing is mounted, thefinal gear being concentric with and transmitting power to thedriving-axle and an inclosing casing for the gear supporting one end ofthe engine in driving relation to the driving-axle, both the engine andthe d rivingaXle in their connected condition being removable from thecar-body.

7. In a steam-motor railway-car, the combination with the body thereofof a steam-boiler located above the floor of the car and a boilerfurnaceseparate therefrom located below the floor of the car, the boiler andfurnace communicating through an opening in the carfloor and being soarranged as to be separately removable, respectively, from above andbelow the floor.

8. In a steam-motor car, the combination with the body thereof, of asteam-boiler located above the floor of the car, a boiler-furnacelocated below the floor of the car, both being readily removable fromthe car-body and a smoke-stack provided with asliding joint tofacilitate the removal of the boiler.

9. In a steam-motor railway-car the combination with the body thereof,of a boiler supported on the floor of the drivers cab and easilydetachable therefrom, an interchangeable pair of running-wheels, and anengine attached to and partly supported by the axle of said wheelsindependent of the running-gear at the opposite end of the car, both theengine and the axle in their connected condition being removable fromthe car-body.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES FELLNER.

Witnesses:

. ALFRED BRUNN,

ANDREW RELEMAN.

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